Show sirens first attracted people to capri island there may really have been a race of sirens or at least beautiful women living here in prehistoric times scientists say writes a capri italy correspondent in the new york world telegram explorers have found that women once lived in the caves along the shore ct cf capri and that the island also had its cavemen the men were cannibals and in capri it is jokingly said that the sirens lured sailors from ships not to see the men destroyed on the rocks but to provide hungry husbands with a meal for decades the people of apri had another strange superstition they believed that the famous blue grotto was the home of the de devil vil himself and fishermen who had to pass near its entrance used to hurry by in fear crossing themselves to save their lives from harm one famous resident of other times was the roman emperor tiberius who spent the last years of his life here he built twelve villas to honor the twelve roman gods and was supposed to have cast his Vic victims tinis over a cliff into the sea this story has long been discredited but the place the leap of tiberius is shown to visitors even though capri is only 3 miles long 1 at its widest it has two small cities capri and ana caarl |